Titoli in Satira

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.

Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.

Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony...

I "Her går det godt" (1952) udstiller Finn Søeborg blandt andet naboskab, familieforhold, sportsidioter og læserbrevsskribenter i 1950’ernes Danmark, hvor bolignøden præger mange menneskers hverdag. En mild satire med herlige typer som fx den koleriske Jeronimus, der med stor iver søger...

Mikä on menestyksen hinta? Avioeroasianajaja Caroline käy pitkillä kävelyillä Dyrehavenin puistossa, eikä itsekään tiedä miksi. Hänen kiinteistönvälittäjänä työskentelvä miehensä Kaare on pääsemässä takaisin jaloilleen konkurssin jälkeen, ja miehellä on jälleen suuria...

Onnellisen kadun kulisseissa kuplii - trilogia tanskalaisista miljonääreistä alkaaLine taistelee pelastaakseen avioliittonsa Kristianin kanssa, joka on alkanut viettää pitkiä aikoja yksin autotallissa autossaan istuen. Kukaan ei tarkalleen tiedä, mitä mies autossa tekee, mutta Kristian...

A runaway goat, a fearless six-year-old, and a roomful of empire-builders collide in Simla, where a child’s plainspoken wisdom exposes the blind spots of British bureaucracy. When Tods—idol of bazaar porters and servants—bursts into the Viceregal Lodge in pursuit of his pet, he also...

A children’s party. A disputed teddy bear. An astonishing shortage of grown-up behavior. When little Ede Andros grabs another child’s toy at a suburban gathering, a small scuffle becomes a very adult affair. Wounded pride fuels sharp remarks, neighborly smiles give way to insults, and two...

Fünf Frauen unter einem Dach – das kann nur in einer Katastrophe enden? Tut es, aber anders als gedacht. Als dann auch noch Benno auf die Idee kommt, Brigitte ungefragt einen Hund zu schenken – noch dazu einen Welpen – ist das Chaos perfekt und die Nerven liegen blank. Und noch bevor alle...

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career...

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

Eine Reise in den Rausch! Nach ihrem Hörbuch über den Opernball legt Stefanie Sargnagel mit einem weiteren Abenteuer nach: Allen Warnungen zum Trotz und in ein Dirndl geschnürt begibt sie sich an einen Ort, der für viele eine Zumutung ist und für andere der Himmel: das Münchner Oktoberfest. Das bietet viel Anlass zum Nachdenken über die liebenswerten und weniger schmeichelhaften Gemeinsamkeiten von Österreich und Bayern.

The struggling firm of Twigg & Dersingham is brought to riches—and ruin—in this kaleidoscopic portrait of late 1920s London from one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters. On a grim sidestreet of the City of London called Angel Pavement, the office of Twigg &...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of I’m Afraid of Men comes a propulsive and chilling novel for the post-#MeToo era, set in an isolationist state where one woman’s death sparks a movement that could liberate women or destroy them all. When Sarah Munroe is sexually...

Martin Amis’s first novel, The Rachel Papers, tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university—with a new introduction by Paul Murray. Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical Oxford student and soon-to-be Great Novelist, spends...

A man grows tired of his open-plan office and builds a fort made of stationery. A woman's euphoria at finally achieving Desktop Zero is quickly replaced with despair. A group of copywriters dream of being poets, and a disillusioned sales executive overthinks his think piece. In the mind-bendingly upside-down world of Sadvertising, iPhones have feelings, brands come to life, creative directors disappear into parallel universes and lowly freelancers become immortal. 

With a mischievous twinkle in her eyes, humorist Karen O’Connor invites you to chuckle and even laugh out loud at the mishaps, misunderstandings, and missteps we all make in our journey to maturity, including… trying to remember the thingamajigs bought at whozywhatsit for the...

Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions, Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! A thrilling exploration of the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin's regime. Known as the "Wizard of the Kremlin," the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka "The Czar." After his resignation from...

Oblomov is one of the most distinctive characters in Russian literature - within a short time following its publication in 1859, the novel spawned its own saying: ‘Oblomovism’! From the pen of Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) emerged a portrait of a young man, Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, who represented...